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The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate

O'Neill, Daniel I.

Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), and a proper understanding of these two thinkers is therefore important as a framework for political debates today. According to Daniel O'Neill...

Southern Baptist Politics

Farnsley, II Arthur Emery / Farnsley II, Arthur E.

Unlike other recent studies of the Southern Baptists, Southern Baptist Politics was written after the culmination of the "Baptist battles" of the 1980s, when Fundamentalists had effectively taken control of the denomination. It also considers the SBC not simply as a denomination but as an organizati...

Stumbling Toward Justice

Hoinacki, Lee

I have been privileged to live in a queer time; I have witnessed the possibilities of both transcendence and horror. Beneath the mélange of comely and loathsome, I found a hope hidden in contemporary existence: One can set out on a quest, a search for the truth of the whole, the good of one's life....

Subversive Virtue

Francis, James A.

Students of the Roman Empire no less than those who are interested in early Christianity will find Francis's study requisite for comprehending the evolution of the pagan and Christian ascetic movements of late antiquity.-Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Penn State UniversityMuch attention has been devoted in re...

The Translator's Handbook

Fuller, Frederick

This handbook introduces general principles of translation while focusing on translating French and Spanish into English within a conference setting. General principles are elucidated in an introduction, in a postlude entitled "The Elements of Good Translation," and throughout the French and Spanish...

A Treasury of Mah y Na S Tras

The Maharatnakuta Sutra is one of the five major sutra groups in the Mahayana canon. Of the two great schools of Buddhism, Mahayana has the greatest number of adherents worldwide---it prevails among the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Tibetans, and Vietnamese---and contains within it a number of movemen...

When Bosses Ruled Philadelphia

McCaffery, Peter

This is the most thoughtful and intensive analysis of the emergence of a political machine of any written in recent years. McCaffery has mastered the theory and historiography of the political machine in general and applied this to a wealth of sources in Philadelphia. His questions are rigorously...

Women in Twentieth-Century Literature

Knapp, Bettina L.

An interdisciplinary work, comparative in nature, which offers extensive and extremely significant information about the cultural context of each work studied as well as penetrating analyses of the characters and situations from the unique perspectives of the psychology/philosophy developed by C.G....

You Must Change Your Life

Lysaker, John T.

Some poems can change our lives; they lead us to look at the world through new eyes. In this book, inspired by Martin Heidegger--who found in poetry the most fundamental insights into the human condition--John Lysaker develops a concept of ur-poetry to explore philosophically how poetic language cre...

Gifford Pinchot

Rhetoric's Pragmatism

Mailloux, Steven

Counterfeit Amateurs

Sack, Allen L.

With a Foreword by Ara ParseghianThe debate over big-time college sports, never far from the front pages, has once again moved from simmering to hot. Congress has been investigating the tax-exempt status of the NCAA in part because of questions about how commercialized college sports contribute to e...